For the last week I have just been nipping in and reading all your postings and its sooooo obvious that MM gods are doing this on purpose!!! They are picking the most used words and banning them to see how you work your way around it!! They must be creased up by now...I know I am!!!

2 Also called swine or hogs, p*igs have stocky and barrel-shaped bodies, four short but slender legs, and large heads. Their physical trademarks are, of course, their long, round, cartilaginous snouts. P*igs have an unusual bone, called the prenasal bone, located just below their disk-shaped snouts. Prenasal bones help strengthen p*igs' snouts, making them a great digging tool.

3 Aside from snouts that function as bulldozers, p*igs reinforce their chance of finding food by having an extremely fine sense of smell. P*igs can sniff out things hidden underground. Their diet includes fungi, fruits or other vegetation, insects, worms, mice, and other small animals. Well-recognized for their keen sense of smell, French people have used wild boars for centuries to find a French delicacy -- truffles. Truffles are edible fungi that grow deep below the surface. They give out a strong smell that wild boars can detect and unearth at ease. Just like the French who have come to rely on p*igs' sensitive noses, police often bring trained p*igs to airports or seaports to uncover illegal drugs that are concealed in cargos.

4 P*igs don't have sweat glands in their bodies, so they don't sweat. To avoid getting overheated, p*igs wallow in mud. By covering their bodies with mud, p*igs achieve two purposes. The first is to cool off, and the second is to keep mosquitoes or other insects from getting to their skin. Unfortunately, this natural behavior leads to the misconception that p*igs are dirty. The truth is that p*igs like to keep clean and tidy, if they are given the opportunity.

5 Contrary to another popular perception, p*igs are not stupid. In fact, they are very smart. Their intelligence was in the headlines when a young p*ig named Priscilla saved a Texas boy's life. The 11-year-old boy, Anthony, went swimming in Lake Somerville of Texas one hot summer day in 1984. He ventured too far into the water and started to drown. Priscilla -- the family's pet p*ig -- noticed the boy struggling and immediately began swimming toward Anthony. When she reached Anthony, he was in such a panic. He grabbed for Priscilla's leash so hard that both of them went under. Although Anthony weighed nearly four times more than Priscilla, Priscilla managed to get to the surface and pull Anthony toward the shore. Even years after the incident, Priscilla still got upset whenever she saw young children playing near the water!"

I can't believe I just inserted an asterisk 16 times.... lol but it's for a good cause.

Min, such interesting info. Have you been doing research all day, are'nt you working!?

2 Also called swine or hogs, p*igs have stocky and barrel-shaped bodies, four short but slender legs, and large heads. Their physical trademarks are, of course, their long, round, cartilaginous snouts. P*igs have an unusual bone, called the prenasal bone, located just below their disk-shaped snouts. Prenasal bones help strengthen p*igs' snouts, making them a great digging tool.

3 Aside from snouts that function as bulldozers, p*igs reinforce their chance of finding food by having an extremely fine sense of smell. P*igs can sniff out things hidden underground. Their diet includes fungi, fruits or other vegetation, insects, worms, mice, and other small animals. Well-recognized for their keen sense of smell, French people have used wild boars for centuries to find a French delicacy -- truffles. Truffles are edible fungi that grow deep below the surface. They give out a strong smell that wild boars can detect and unearth at ease. Just like the French who have come to rely on p*igs' sensitive noses, police often bring trained p*igs to airports or seaports to uncover illegal drugs that are concealed in cargos.

4 P*igs don't have sweat glands in their bodies, so they don't sweat. To avoid getting overheated, p*igs wallow in mud. By covering their bodies with mud, p*igs achieve two purposes. The first is to cool off, and the second is to keep mosquitoes or other insects from getting to their skin. Unfortunately, this natural behavior leads to the misconception that p*igs are dirty. The truth is that p*igs like to keep clean and tidy, if they are given the opportunity.

5 Contrary to another popular perception, p*igs are not stupid. In fact, they are very smart. Their intelligence was in the headlines when a young p*ig named Priscilla saved a Texas boy's life. The 11-year-old boy, Anthony, went swimming in Lake Somerville of Texas one hot summer day in 1984. He ventured too far into the water and started to drown. Priscilla -- the family's pet p*ig -- noticed the boy struggling and immediately began swimming toward Anthony. When she reached Anthony, he was in such a panic. He grabbed for Priscilla's leash so hard that both of them went under. Although Anthony weighed nearly four times more than Priscilla, Priscilla managed to get to the surface and pull Anthony toward the shore. Even years after the incident, Priscilla still got upset whenever she saw young children playing near the water!"

I can't believe I just inserted an asterisk 16 times.... lol
but it's for a good cause.